The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-02
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CASE

ICe'eOrated case anDourneu hHsS
Thursday evening until next Tne"-
day, June 9TH, when the argument
will begin. Figures and the negro
Hardy we're each released on a
$4,000 bond, pending Judge Pey.
toms final decision; while Albrecht
and Eubanks were held without bail.
There will be four or five speeches
on each side. Judge Wiley p. ilar-
ris has been selected by the counsel
for the defense TO open the case for
them, and John II. Martin by the
prosecution TO open the case for the
State. There is q dispute as 10
which side has the right to open and
close the argument, and Judge
Pcyton will have To decide this
point when the Court meets again.
A writ Of hdbedS corpus for Col.
Hamilton will be presented before
the argument begins, and his case
will he decided BY the Chancellor
at the same time with ibe other
cases upon the testimony now in.
AS TO what the testimony estab-
fishes, there can be but one opin
ion held by all unbiased people
who have read it, and that is,
that Gambrell was waylaid and bru
tally murdered by Hamilton and
at least two others. The story at
first invented and so tenaciously
cluug TO that Hamilton and Eu-
hanks and the negro driver were
driving quietly along the street
when Gambrell fired into the hack
ut Hamilton, has been completely
swept away. Only one witness be
sides those claiming to have been in
the carriage, testified that a carriage
was on the bridge when the shoot
ing commenced, and she has been
successfully impeached and will be
convicted of perjury. Numbers ot
other witnesses who were IN a bet
ter position to see, representing
both the State and defense, swear
positively that no carriage was
there. The bullet-hole in the top
OF the carriage was shown to have
gone through from inside the car
rage and not from the foot walk at
all, and q proposition by the
States lawyers to make prac-
tical demonstration of this was
declined by the attorneys for the
defense. But to completely explode
the carriage story, Nellie Dinkins, a
colored woman who testified for the
State and who was the nearest dis
interested eye witness to the shoot
ing that was introduced, testified
that she saw three men get out aud
the carriage pass off the bridge go
ing east just before the shooting
began. She swears that she saw
TWO of these three men engage in
the shooting at Gambrell, and thus
far her testimony has not been
weakened or impeached.
So much for the carriage story, but
there is other evidence quite as
strong. Take the fact that Gam
brell had no occasion to make any
attack upon Hamilton and consider
ed all danger OF Hamlton's attack
ing him passed-take the fact that
Hamilton, Albrecht and another
party were seen peering into the
train at the depot when Gambrell
came in on it from Clinton--takc
the testimony of Winter and Jayne
and the Asher girls that the car
riage had passed on long enough to
be beyond the bridge before the
shooting began--take the cry of
murder" after the first shot, the
last word the doomed young man
was ever heard to utter, and his own
testimony as to the character of the
crime-take the three simultaneous
shots seen ny Jayne and Lewis con-
verging from the road to where
Gamhrell lay-take Purser's and
Jones' testimony who saw one of
two men who had started off after
all the shooting was over come back
to where their victim lay and crush
his skull and disfigure his face
with pistol thuds-yes, take these
and fifty other damaging facts and
circumstances, and the mind is
forced to echo the words of the mar
tyred boy-"Murderr Murder"
"Murder!.!"
The Senatorial candidates thus